A World of Words : Language and Displacement in the Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe /

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A World of Words offers a new look at the degree to which language itself is a topic of Poe's texts. Stressing the ways his fiction reflects on the nature of its own signifying practices, Williams sheds new light on such issues as Poe's characterization of the relationship between author a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Williams, Michael J. S. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 1988.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Poe, Edgar Allan, > 1809-1849.
Poe, Edgar Allan, > 1809-1849 > Fictional works.
Poe, Edgar Allan, > 1809-1849 > Language.
Language and languages.
Fantasy fiction, American.
Criticism and interpretation.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Fantasy fiction, American > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "A World of Words"
  • The Personage in Question": Self and Language
  • "An Unknown Quantity of X": Some Anxieties of Authority
  • "Duelli Lex Scripta, et Non, Aliterque": The Struggle for Authority
  • "Word of No Meaning": Denial of the Symbol
  • Voice and Text: Displacements of Authority
  • Conclusion: Allegories of Reading.

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